Arts & Culture

The Ontarion’s arts and culture articles cover the local artistic scene, including news, interviews, and reviews.

Arts & Culture

Love is not your typical love story

Reviewing the latest Netflix original Love is something that surrounds everything in the 21st century. It’s on every t-shirt, in every song, and on every TV show. It’s something that is talked about profusely and joked about often. Netflix’s new original series, Love, features, like most love stories, a guy […]

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Battle of the bands at DSTRCT

Canadian bands go head-to-head Live Music Prize Series and DSTRCT presented a battle of the bands on Saturday, March 26, 2016. Two bands had dropped from the bill; Jimmy Pearson, and Three Quarter Stone. The new lineup included The Woolwich Project and The Plugs, and The Dead Projectionists became the […]

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Malik Taylor passes away at 45

Hip-hop mourns the death of Phife Dawg The hip-hop community mourns in wake of the death of Malik Taylor, the rapper known as Phife Dawg, whose clever rhymes helped send A Tribe Called Quest into both commercial and critical success. Phife died last Tuesday, March, 22, 2016, from complications related […]

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The Weekly Scene: Batman v Superman

2 spectacularly-dreadful-ignorances-of-character out of 4 Dear reader, in order for us to continue this review and our relationship, we must confront a single fundamentally unavoidable law: I know more about comic books than you. I’m not looking to argue. I’m not looking to turn this review into a larger cultural […]

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Guest artist speaks at Shenkman Lecture

People gather at War Memorial Hall to hear Fred Wilson speak The Dasha Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art celebrated its 10th anniversary on Wed. March 23, 2016, with guest speaker Fred Wilson coming to speak at the University of Guelph. This lecture series invites relevant artists to talk to students […]

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Album of the week

Artist: Beastie Boys Album: Check Your Head Check Your Head, the highly influential fourth studio album, was released by the Beastie Boys in 1992 under Capitol Records. Based out of New York City the band on this record consisted of: Adam “MCA” Yauch (Bass), Michael “Mike D” Diamond (Drums), Adam […]